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Well but can they not tell themselves that yesterday, or last
year, they moved round the earth, that they lived yesterday or at
any given moment in their lives?
Their living is eternal, and eternity is an unchanging unity. To
identify a yesterday or a last year in their movement would be
like isolating the movement of one of the feet, and finding a
this or a that and an entire series in what is a single act. The
movement of the celestial beings is one movement: it is our
measuring that presents us with many movements, and with distinct
days determined by intervening nights: There all is one day;
series has no place; no yesterday, no last year.
Still: the space traversed is different; there are the various
sections of the Zodiac: why, then, should not the soul say "I
have traversed that section and now I am in this other?" If,
also, it looks down over the concerns of men, must it not see the
changes that befall them, that they are not as they were, and, by
that observation, that the beings and the things concerned were
otherwise formerly? And does not that mean memory?
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